Dolphin Products – strategic growth plan

Project Description

Strategic Growth Plan for Non-Automotive Business

SituationOur client has been providing high quality plastic moulded parts to the Australian Auto Industry for many years, and was growing additional business with other non-auto clients. Due to the reduction in Australian made vehicles, Dolphin was under pressure to seek alternative sources of revenue.

Our role in this strategic growth plan was

To act a coach and guide the client to think through how to win new business.

Filter the many existing and new business ideas down to a manageable number of selected opportunities to research and better understand

Critically rate those opportunities using the Opportunity Evaluation Matrix

Select the best and most valuable opportunities to progress

Create a sales growth plan to show the impact of the new opportunities on the business

Create a marketing plan that defines what needs to be done to win that revenue

Outcome

Over a period of weeks, we worked with management to:

Reduce over 50 ideas down to a more manageable 7 ideas for further research

Conduct detailed research into the chosen opportunities

Work through the Opportunity Evaluation Matrix and select the opportunity with the most potential and with the least risk

Help build a picture of the dollar value of the selected business over time

Mesh that with the forecast sales trend of the existing business

Build a business case to gain approval from the directors in Hong Kong for additional commercial staff in Melbourne. Hong Kong approved the additional funding within 48 hours

Work is now progressing to win real business with current and new clients

Since the start of the project revenue is up over 18%

We tried to develop a sales and marketing plan early last year on our own, but with not much success. At that point we were introduced to Roaring Success. Steve Wood and his team reviewed what we had started then added their marketing skills and the magic of their Roaring Success process to give us a Sales and Marketing Strategy that will launch our plastics business over the next five years into new, exciting and challenging growth areas.

The team at Roaring Success maintained a high level of enthusiasm that made for some great creativity and helped provide the plan and some great marketing insight that I needed to lead my company forward in a tough manufacturing climate. Thanks for your great support.
Mario Turcarelli, General Manager, Dolphin Products Pty Ltd, www.dolphinproducts.com.au